Tuesday, June 26, 2012 1:51:16 PMNickel2 - Yes, but having 100 people watch the video at the same time would take some doing. It's not impossible, but quite unlikely, hence why you'll usually see 301 / 302

Tuesday, June 26, 2012 1:02:40 PMAm I to understand that by this explanation, if the counter had reached 299, and a server input came along with a block of 100 views the counter would trip to 399 then stop?

Tuesday, June 26, 2012 11:30:55 AMIt's odd because it used to sometimes freeze at the mid 400s as well

not really if it's posted on a high traffic site like 4chan or somewhere

simultaneous actions like that happen all the time on single webservers, so if it's being compiled across multiple servers, that error threshold would probably be that little bit larger...just a lot of actions over a few milliseconds

Tuesday, June 26, 2012 9:03:30 AMReally close, MacGuffin, but not exactly. It doesn't freeze your IP's views and wait for more real views. It switches over to an algorithm that scrutinizes all views. It verifies every view that you received, beyond 300. It takes several hours for the count to be run through and for it to update the info on your page.

It seems to understand this stuff really well. You should watch the video. It is interesting.

Tuesday, June 26, 2012 8:15:35 AMI know the answer without even playing the video: because anyone that finds this happening to them has been spamming their own Channel. When your view counts hit 300, YT begins to use a different algorithm to indicate your viewing figures. If you've got a lot of traffic from one IP address or from your own Google account, that's taken into account at that juncture and your view count gets frozen until more 'real' viewers actually view your videos.